Archive for November, 2009


Operation Chiaki: Day 19, 20,21 (Osaka)

What can I say? The weather though clear for the past 3 days (for only short durations then followed by lots of cloudy skies) I’ve been spending it going to Osaka back and fourth.

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Operation Chiaki: Day 18 (Himeji)

Definitely worth my day!

Decided to pay Himeji a visit on a spur of the moment choice this morning since it was sunny, I had some extra days on my hand since Yoshino was done, Miyajima was not sunny today and it was only 30 minutes away from Kyoto by Shinkansen!

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Operation Chiaki: Day 17 (Yoshino) and Kyoto at night

So far I believe I've been hiking 8 km per day on average. Yoshino was no exception except that it was a 15 km hike which I decided to pass up and only go 1/3 of the way instead. Though I shot with film for Yoshino.

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Day 15 at Takao
No I didn’t go back to mount Takao in Tokyo,  it appears that Kyoto also has it’s own Takao, its actually a mountainous region.  You can basically ride the JR bus all the way to the end of Takao but the real places to visits are the temples as Kozenji.

Unfortunately it was an extremely cloudy day, making any photos I take totally boring! It was so bad, none of the photos I took are worth posting up hence I decided to chuck it up to my second failure since Nikko.

Day 16 at Yoshiminedera
Now this was a diferent story!

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Operation Chiaki: Day 14 (Kyoto)

"Today was the longest day yet" was my last thought before falling asleep last night.

It all began innocently enough, waking up at 6am, heading out to the Western region at 7pm. The weather was cloudy and cold though it was forecast to be sunny.  But since I was up already and here, I tried to make the best of it. Using film and all my old Provia 100F supplies, (I never did like that damn film) I tried to enjoy myself.

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